US268691A

US268691A - Hominy-mill

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Publication number: US268691A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1882-12-05
Anticipated expiration: 1899-12-05

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J'G'KLAUDBR.

No' 268.691l

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1 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN O. KLAUDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,691, dated December 5, 1882.

Application filed August 14, 18852,

To LLL whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN C. KLAUDER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in H'ominy-Mills, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is 'to construct a mill for the rapid, effective, and continuous reduction of corn to the condition of hominyan operation which requires the removal ofthe hulls from the grains of corn, the cracking of the grains into fragments, and the separation therefrom ofthe soft port-ions at the center or eye of each grain. 4

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a longitudinal section of my improved honiiny-V mill; Fig. 2, a transverse section ofthe same, and Fig. 3 a sectional plan view of part of the mill.

A is a frame, suitably mounted on legs (t, and having bearings for the shaft or spindle b of a burr-stone, B, which is contained withina casing, D, carried by the frame A, said casing being eccentric in respect to the stone, `as shown in Fig. l. Atthe top of the casing is a hopper, E, with valve d; and at one side of the casing, ator near the point Where the stone makes its closest approach thereto,`is an ad-Y instable block, F, immediately above which is a perforated plate, G, which forms part of the casing D and closes the entrance to a spout, H, the latter discharginginto any suitable receptacle. In the bottom or lower half of the 'casing D are formed perforations m, and this part of the casing is furnished with a valve, f, as shown. The perfor-ations m are ot' a finer character than those in the plate G.

'The operation ofthe mill is as follows: vThe corn is fed continuously into the casing D through the hopper E. The stone being rotated in the direction of the arrow, the grains of corn are forced into the grad ually-contracted spacem between the stone and casin g, and are prevented from being carried around by the stone, which thus exercises an abrading eHect upon them, the result of which is that the hulls ofthe grains and the soft portions at the-ceny ter or eye of each grainA are removed, the` (No model.)

lgrains being broken or cracked by pressure against the block F, and the cracked grains nding their Way between said block and the stone, and then through the perforated plate G into the spout H. The block F is adjustable from and toward the stone,'so as to compensate for Wear and regulate the sizeof the grains of hominy. i

The openings in the lo wer part of the casing D serve to ventilate the interior ofthe casing and prevent. the undue heating ofthe stone or of the contents of the casing, and-'said perforations also seme to permit the discharge of aportion of the hulls and lloury portions of the corn. q

The interior of the casing may be emptied at any time, if desired, by closing the hoppervalve d and opening the lower valve, f.

The periphery of the stone may be plain, or may have a dress similar to that shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The'above-described mill is continuous in its action, si'nple in construction, and not so liable to get out of order as the usual cast-iron mills.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination ofthe casing D, havin an inlett'or the corn, and a perforated dischargeplate, G, with a block, I", and a burr stone, I3, arranged eccentiically in the casing D, as set forth. I

2. rlhe combination of the casing D, having` an inlet for the corn, and a perforated dischargeplate, G, with the adjustable block F and the burr-stone B, arranged eccentrically in the casing, as set forth.

3. The combination of the casing D,'having an inlet for the corn, a perforated dischargeplate, G, and perforations m with the eccentric burr-stone B and block F, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence ot'two sub` scribing witnesses.

LloHN e. KLAUDEE.

Witnesses:

HARRY DRURY, HARRY SMrrH.